Indian history
AA Edit | The lessons India can learn from Sardar Patel & Indira
Sardar Patel’s list of achievements is too long even by the extraordinary standards of his seniors and peers
Book Review | Folk heroes take precedence over icons, wording of title still curious
Review of 'Bravehearts of Bharat' by Vikram Sampath
India is rectifying past mistakes: PM Modi
India's history is not just about slavery but also about India emerging victorious, its warriors and the valour of countless greats, PM said
Mohan Guruswamy | Rewriting history, with an open mind or empty mind?
In recent years, the Sangh Parivar’s historians have been seeking to revise history to suit some of their ideological peculiarities
AA Edit | Why rewrite history?
Nitish Kumar’s wonderment about how history can be revisited is as much pregnant with political meaning as the call of Amit Shah on its need
'Time to write our own history', says Amit Shah
Home minister says historians ignored Cholas, Pandyas to focus on Mughals
Mohan Guruswamy | Indian history: The tales of defeat in North India
Little is told about regions like Odisha and Bengal, while Assam hardly figures
Farrukh Dhondy | Why I’m happy to be a snob… amid linguistic revolutionaries
Indian historians, even in my school days, decolonised the accounts of Indian history written by British Raj historians
French strokes, Indian canvases
Ironically, many Indian rulers had French-speaking officials in their kingdom.
Wars in India: Looking back at history
The Mahabharat was a civil war and no Indian really celebrates it. The Ramayan, on other hand, was a war.